Attention entrepreneurs … “nothing could be more dumb (sic) than throwing your hard-earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.”

So says Kevin Leu, a PR specialist himself who worked in-house with PR agencies before founding GirlsOnAMap.com. In an article in Venturebeat, he concluded that using venture funding to hire an agency is about as smart as allowing your company to be acquired by Groupon in an all-stock transition for five reasons: